Do I need to register for PST in another province

GST/HST is one registration that covers the whole country. The provincial sales taxes are not. British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba each run their own tax, with their own registration, their own rules and their own filing schedule, and Quebec's QST is separate again. Selling into a province can create an obligation there even if you have never set foot in it.

Where the lines are

Each province publishes its own rule for a business located outside it:

• Saskatchewan sets no threshold at all. A business making retail sales into Saskatchewan is required to be licensed from the first sale.
• Manitoba has a $30,000 small-seller exemption, but it generally does not reach an out-of-province seller, because it depends on having paid Manitoba RST on the stock you are reselling.
• British Columbia starts at $10,000 of sales into BC over 12 months, and immediately if you store inventory in BC.
• Quebec starts at $30,000 of supplies made in Quebec over 12 months if your business is resident elsewhere in Canada. If your business is resident in Quebec, the test is your worldwide sales instead.

Physical presence stopped being the test some years ago, so a store shipping across the country can owe registrations in several provinces at once.

Your store will not do this for you

Shopify charges a province's PST only once you add a tax registration for that region in its own settings. It is a switch you turn on after you register, not a lookup, and it does not watch these thresholds for you. Until you turn it on, an order shipping to Saskatchewan is charged GST alone.

What TALISK_HQ does

TALISK_HQ reads the destination of your invoices and of your store orders, and raises a card on Books health when a province's published rule looks like it applies to you and no registration is recorded. The card names the province, what you sold into it, and what the rule says. It is a heads-up for a conversation with your accountant, not a ruling.

Record a registration

Once you register with a province, record it so TALISK_HQ stops raising the card and can track that province's filing period:

1. Go to Ledger › Setup and open the business.
2. Under Provincial sales tax (PST / RST), choose the province.
3. Type the registration number.
4. Choose how often that province asks you to report, and enter the first day of any one of your reporting periods. TALISK_HQ works out every other period from there.
5. Select Add.

If you recorded a province before you knew its schedule, you can add it later with Change filing period on that row.

Quebec is the exception: record a QST number in the QST Registration # field just above, which is where TALISK_HQ has always kept it.

Your PST period will not match your GST period

A provincial filing period is set by the province, and it usually will not line up with your GST quarters. A business filing GST quarterly on a 28 February year end reports GST for March to May, June to August, and so on, while its BC PST quarter can run 1 May to 31 July. Nothing is wrong when they differ; they are two different governments on two different schedules.

That is why TALISK_HQ asks you for the period rather than working it out. There is nothing in your books that could tell it: the province decided the dates when you registered.

Each province gets its own account

When you record a registration, TALISK_HQ creates a ledger account for that province, for example 2121 PST Payable (British Columbia), and shows it beside the registration. This is how QuickBooks handles it too: each tax authority gets its own liability account, so each return reconciles to one account instead of to a shared pool you would have to split by hand.

Books that have never registered anywhere keep the single PST Payable account and are completely unaffected.

Once a period is recorded, two things follow.

Tax Summary shows PST on its own window. The PST section of the tax worksheet gets its own period chooser, set by default to your last completed provincial period, so the figure you read is the one that return covers rather than whatever window the rest of the page is on. If you are registered in more than one province the figure covers all of them together, because TALISK_HQ keeps one PST Payable account, and the page says so.

TALISK_HQ reminds you before it is due. Books health raises a card as the provincial deadline approaches. The provinces do not share a due date: British Columbia wants the return and payment by the last day of the month after the period ends, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba want them by the 20th. Saskatchewan gives you until the end of that month if you both file and pay electronically; TALISK_HQ shows the earlier date, so following it is safe either way.

And the period picker gains a second list. Open it, choose Filing periods, and each province you have registered gets its own group beneath your GST/HST periods. Picking one puts the report, the general ledger, or the bills list on exactly the window that province's return covers, so you do not have to type the dates into Custom Range.